Greetings,
* Nathan Bossart (nathandbossart@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 08:44:51AM -0600, David Steele wrote:
> > Personally, I am in favor of removing it. We change/rename
> > functions/tables/views when we need to, and this happens in almost every
> > release.
> >
> > What we need to do is make sure that an older installation won't silently
> > work in a broken way, i.e. if we remove the exclusive flag somebody
> > expecting the pre-9.6 behavior might not receive an error and think
> > everything is OK. That would not be good.
> >
> > One option might be to rename the functions. Something like
> > pg_backup_start/stop.
>
> I'm fine with this approach.
+1.
Thanks,
Stephen